The benevolent banner. [volume] (North Topeka, Kan.) 1887-18??, 1887-05-28
GENERAL NEWS

South Bend to claim the remains of his
sister, who committed suicide several weeks
agu The body had, under the law, been
si,en to local physician for dissection.
Wells sought the physician, intending to
kill him. Failing to find him, he blew his
own brains out.
The available stock of wheat east of the
Rocky mountains, on the 18th instant, was
66,309, 900 bushels, and of corn 1926, 600
bushels. On May IL. 1886, the stock of
wheat amounted to 81 $4,000 bushels, and
of corn to 14,058,0OO bushels.
Timothy Coop, the wealthy Englishman
who endowed Garfield university at Wichita,
Kansas, died at that city.
Madame Janauschek, the well-known ira
gedienne, was dangerously injured by fall
ing down fight of stairs at Newport,
Rhode Island, hotel Tuesday night.
Two Pennsylvania ladies are about to file
a claim against the United States govern
vances said to have been made by lineai
ancestor to the continental government
during the Revolution.
The Portuguese government has ordered
forty thousand repeating rifles from an
Austrian factory.
The east Tennessee farmers convention at
Knoxvllleh has Endorsed the proposed prohibit
tory amendment to the constitution OF that
state.
The senate bill ceding to the general
government the locks and dams IN the I'LL
nois and Michigan canal and the illinois
river passed the house yesterday. The ces-
sion takes effect when the government digs
ship canal.
Colonel j. @. R1eff. we'll known Wall
street operator, who has been fighting the
Western Union Telegraph company IN the
courts for long time without success, has
applied for an injunction to restrain the
company from issuing bonds into which it
is proposed to fund Its guaranteed ODLga-
tiOns.
The roy al commission appointed to inves-
tigate the alleged corruption in the British
war Office has made report generating the
accused officials, but recommending various
administrative reforms.
The American Base Ball association has
voted to abolish the idiotic rule which
credits batter who gets his base on balls
with base hit. The league ought to agree
without hesitation to the proposed change.
The association also proposes an amend
ment to the rules giving the batter but three
strikes, instead of four, as at present.
Vice President Potter has severed his
connection for many years with the Burling
ton railway system, and will assume his new
duties with the Union Pacific and Oregon
Navigation lines. He will hereafter make
his headquarters in Omaha.
"A good many military organizations from
differe Mt parts of the country have arrived
at Washington and will participate in the
national drill to be held in that city this
week.
Signor G. P. Morisini, formerly Jay
GOuid's partner, told what he didn't know
about Union Pacific matters before the Pa
cifc railway commission. 1t didn't take
him long. Russell Sage, the we'll known
financier and philanthropist, was then
called, and paralyZed the commission by
producing his books and announcing his
determination to tell all he knew. The in
formation he gave up, however, was highly
unimportant, and, Notwithstanding his ex-
pressed desire to assist the commission, his
memory failed him at a critical point in the
examination. Nathaniel Miles, formerly a
government director of the Union Pacific
in 1879 was the next witness, but he didn't
know or could not remember most of the
things the commission was anxious to find
out. The Investigation thus far has not
been prolific in results.
Judge Kelley, the pig-iron statesman, who
has just returned from another southern
pilgrimage. says he was surprised and de-
lighted with what he saw" He predicts
that "the great boom Of the south is near al
hand"
Forty manufacturing establishments a.
Haverhill, Massachusetts, have closed theil
doors, throwing three thousand persons on
of employment. About four thousand more
will be locked. The state board of arbitra
ton will attempt to adjust the trouble.
Xenia, Indiana, comes to the front with
fSY1o Of NO az ut emil
of $50 feet.
Thenewly-appointed papal nunclo to Pari
has received private instructions from hi
holiness as to the course he shall pursue il
order to effect composition of the differ
ences between the Vatican and France. IL
leaves tor Paris at once.
The reichstag committee has adopted tn
first clause of the brandy tax bill. This &C
ton fore shadows the passage of the entir
bill.
Mrs. Mary Hay Brockes, wife of Judge {
the supreme court of New York, died Will
kneeling at the grave OF her daughter in
Saratoga cemetery.
The directors of the New York and Ne
Haven railroad have voted to lease the Cor
necticnt Valley railroad for ninety mir
years from April 1887, and to make the
road four-track line in New York state.
A syndicate of Pittsburgh capitalists his
leased four thousand acres of land in Adam
county, Indiana, ar d will bore for natur
gas. The lands lie IN a direct line hetwee
Marion, Indiana, and Findlay, Ohio, whel
rich strikes have been made. If gas is foun
in sufficient volume, it will be piped to Fo
Wayne, a distance of about twenty fv
miles.
Asailing boat, containing party of plea
re-seekers, capsized during a squall {
Traverse bay, near Harbor Springs, Mich
gan, and five of the eight passengers we
drowned.
Samuel M. Williams, q prominent Law
YER of Little Rock. Arkansas, is ed aspiral